"We're movin' on up, to the east side"

I am now currently in the process of having my annual moving.  Every year around this time, I move it seems!  But hopefully, this time, I won't want to move after just one year.  The plan is to actually stay in this new apartment until I am done with school/save lots of money to move into an actual house of my own.

I've always wanted to live in this building that I am moving to (because one of my best friends has lived there for almost 3 years and loves it) but when I went to look at openings in the building a few weeks ago all the one bedroom apartments were VERY small.  My bed would probably fill the entire room.  So I went home a little discouraged that I would not be able to get an apartment layout similar to my friend's place.  Then I decided to keep pursuing and not settle for less than I wanted and well, it paid off! I emailed just a week and a half later and they replied to me right away saying they just had the keys dropped off for #405 (the next door to my friend!) and I could see it that day if I wanted.  So I went to see the apartment, loved it, and the manager recognized me from having lived in a different building he owned back in 2008, so he said right away if I wanted it I could have it and he wouldn't make me pay the application fee even!

So July 10th I will be back in downtown Milwaukee and LOVING IT!  Pics to come soon!

Now if only I could stop procrastinating on the packing... ;-)

When You're Smiling...

Well, well, well...what's this we have here?  A poor neglected blog I see!  Aww, sad little bloggy, always being the victim of procrastination!  But that's why we keep expectations low around here so you can be pleasantly surprised when an update comes around...right? Right!

Being that I've missed well over a month if not more in blogging I'm going to have to stretch out all the happenings and mishappenings in more than one blog...so it has the appearance of not being so lacking in material heehee...

So best, top news by far is:
I GOT INTO THE DENTAL HYGIENE PROGRAM FINALLY!!! YAY!
I've been waiting for years, there was a lot of people applying and very limited places, but I got in on my second try!  Nothing could make me feel better, this makes all my efforts well worth it.  I also finished out my microbiology course with an A- and I walked away with a really good understanding of a lot material.  Best class I've ever had, can't wait to take Plagues, People and Power course with the same professor!

Also, since I'll be starting classes in the fall I've recently become very vain about the whiteness of my teeth.  I just feel like if I'm going to be practicing a profession based on oral hygiene, I should also have a set of choppers that inspires...not makes people think, "Well she should take her own advice".  I tried some whitening strips, they didn't really work for me and I found them really uncomfortable and expensive!  Then the other day I was waiting and line and saw a display for Crest 3D whitening line which had a vibrating toothbrush, whitening tooth paste and whitening mouth wash and I thought I would give it a try.  It's only been 3 days of using all the products twice a day and I've already noticed surface stains disappearing!  It's fantastic and it makes my mouth feel super clean and the best part is that it cost me only about $17 for all the products together, that's a fraction of the cost of the strips!  So I really highly recommend the products if you're looking for great results!

You probably would get even faster results with the strips but I was trying to save some money, because those usually run like $39-60 for a two week supply.

Well, that's concludes our blog for today, 'you stay classy San Diego, I'm Sami?'